Monthly Archives: June 2014

A few years ago I got to a point in my life where I was at a fork in the road. I was trying to decide what to do next in my life, and I seemed to have several equally good options to pick from.

My question was: what does God want me to do?

Around that time I read this passage in Psalm 19 (Message):

“The revelation of God is whole

and pulls our lives together.

The signposts of God are clear

and point out the right road.

The life maps of God are right

showing the way to joy.

The directions of God are plain

and easy on the eyes”

So I drew the first picture, and felt a lot happier because God was going to clearly show me which path He wanted me to take.

But He didn’t.

Instead He told me to choose…

What?!

The more I thought and prayed about it the more I felt God saying it was up to me what path I took.

A friend suggested that while God may have a “final destination” in His plan for me, I could take any number of routes to get there, more like the second picture and Isaiah 30v21 (NIV):

“Whether you turn to the right or the left,

Your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying,

‘This is the way.

Walk in it.”

It’s a few years down the line now, and I find myself in a similar position, although, somehow, with a lot less certainty that I’ll work out where I want to go. It’s hard not to feel that this last year I’ve been on a wrong path, as things haven’t really turned out the way I expected. But nothing in God’s kingdom is wasted and I know at the very least I’ve learnt a lot about myself and how to rely on God more.

Yet, it has been so comforting to come across these pictures and those passages again. I know that I am on a journey and that wherever I am going, God is not only going with me, but He is already preparing the way ahead of me.

For the past couple of years I have been dabbling with blogging and recently, encouraged by my fellow dreamers, I have started to take this more seriously and start to see myself as a writer. With this in mind I thought it was high time I tried to get a bit more professional about it – hence the new blog name, with it’s own twitter feed and Facebook page.

The title, May I Be the Moon, is from a poem wrote a few years ago. I was thinking about how the moon shines so brightly every night but it is not its own light, but reflected light of the sun that we see. I realised that this is what I want in my life – that when people they would not see me but see God in my life.

In my writing I try to balance my life and my faith, I try to see the world through what I’m reading in the Bible. My poetry is often born out of a place of confusion finding its way to resolution as I work out what God is speaking to me.

Over the next few months I will be transferring some of the posts from my old blog but also writing lots of new material.